I understand your point. I just responded to your first post.
The sad thing is that Romney could see problem issues, but he couldn’t address them in a manner that connected with the public he wanted to vote for him.
His record was detrimental. His inability to flesh out proper fixes was inadequate. And there was the feeling that he wanted to correct Obama misdeeds with his own brand of misdeeds. “We’ll strike down Obamacare and replace it.” Say what?
We are not inspiring people on our side to go to the polls. We are abandoning too many people in our quest to lead.
I don’t think I saw Romney/Ryan address minority unemployment once during the campaign. I know for sure they weren’t talking about numbers pre Obama post Obama.
There was so much fertile ground that went untouched upon.
My take on that was similar to the other stuff Romney said. He thought it sounded better to the average voter tha total repeal. Obama-care is unpopular but many Dems didn't like it because they wanted single payer instead, not repeal. And other voters didn't like it because of the bribes or other crap in it they heard about.
I don't think Republicans found any general polls where most people in the US thought that the Fed gubmt should do nothing about the uninsured, even though we do.
So I think Romney was just playing the polls song again. And as you say, why would he believe in total repeal given his record? with Romney we will never know.